About Us

American Water & Energy Savers (AWES) has been providing water management and utility billing solutions to multi-family and retail owners on a nationwide basis for over 25 years. Distinguished by its responsiveness, superior service and results, AWES has generated millions of dollars in savings by reducing water consumption for hundreds of multi-family communities. Services range from water conservation installations including toilet retrofits to utility submetering to meter installations on new construction. Savings from the water conservation retrofits range from 30-50% and have pay back periods ranging from 6 to 24 months. If a property is submetered, AWES will also provide its extensive billing and reporting services. (See Multi-Family.)

Retail owners with master-metered centers have realized that the traditional model of passing these costs through to the tenants via CAM on a square footage pro-rata basis no longer works. They also know that manually-read submetering systems do come with some short comings. AWES has solutions including submetering existing centers (or upgrading manually read systems) using an AMR (automatic meter reading) system that reads meters daily, TABS (Trend Analysis Billing System) which is an estimated billing service using our extensive consumption database and submetering on new construction. Benefits include reduced CAM and administrative costs, improved cash flow and tenant relations, discovery of underground leaks and other issues and, with regard to new construction, significantly reduced impact and/or master meter fees.

AWES’ superior service for retail owners, in addition to the daily meter readings, includes a spot check on all meters on the 10th and 20th of the month providing high usage alerts that are conveyed to management so the tenants address the problem in a timely fashion or management knows there is vacant usage AND the ability to conduct same day billing cycle comparisons of the submeter readings with the consumption reported on the master meter bills potentially identifying problems such as underground leaks, theft or tenants' malfunctioning equipment or incorrect municipal estimating. Also included are billing, collections, management reports, customer service support for tenants and troubleshooting any problems. (See Retail.)

AWES is a distributor for various meter manufacturers including commercial meters such as compound meters, turbine meters, fireline meters, multi-jet meters and single jet meters.

Effectively managing commercial real estate is always a challenge especially with resources continuing to be spread thin. The water management services AWES provides allows you to keep your property competitive in the marketplace, retain tenants, reduce costs, apply limited resources in the most effective means possible and increase a property’s value.

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Looking for a cost effective alternative to submetering

Looking for a cost effective alternative to submetering that equitably bills tenants based on consumption vs. square footage? AWES’ estimated billing service TABS is used by various owners including RPAI, Equity One, DLC Management, RED Development, The Shopping Center Group and others. Read More»

Batson-Cook Development Company

We have been very pleased with both the savings realized by the use of AWES sub-metering systems and with the lightened workload on our property managers not having to read meters and reconcile against utility bills on a monthly basis. Read More»

TABS Helps Shopping Center With Direct Billing

We have been utilizing American Water & Energy Savers’ TABS system for over a year. This system helps us direct-bill shopping center tenants where there are no separate water sub meters to calculate the exact usage of each occupant. Read More»

Regency Centers Dallas Fort Worth

We have used American Water & Energy Savers at several of our Dallas/Forth Worth properties for a number of years Read More»

Kimco Realty - Orlando, FL

AWES has the highest of recommendations regarding their professionalism and ability to install, wirelessly read, and bill for water usage. Read More»

Kimco Realty - Florida Region

As the Director of Property Management for Kimco's Florida Region for the past 18 years there are only a few companies/contractors that I would rate as "A+". Read More»

Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc

I would highly recommend them, as my recovery for water alone at one center has gone from 10% to 80%. Read More»

Regency Centers Raleigh, NC

I have been extremely happy with American Water and Energy since I first started working with Michael in early 2007. Read More»

Westdale Success Story

"In 2008, we purchased a property that was a water hog using over 2 million gallons a month. With the city of Atlanta having one of the most expensive water rates in the country and with more increases to come, we had to do something. AWES came in, identified the problem, and offered a cost effective solution to reduce our monthly water bill. Since the installation, we have saved over 4.3 million gallons of water and approximately $72k in the first three months. At this rate, our payback will be less than 12 months! Because of the success of this one property, AWES in now looking at all of our properties in Atlanta."

Geller Associates Property Retrofits

"Working with AWES has been an extreme pleasure. From start to finish of the project, it was seamless and smooth. I would recommend anyone to use AWES to improve their property and reduce their utility costs."